Harold Washington College — Library Newsletter
Fall 2011
Course Reserves
Collection
Under the auspices of the
Library Textbook program,
Beck’s Bookstore delivered
5 boxes of textbooks to the
HWC Library on August 22,
2011.
Approximately 60
titles have been processed
and are ready for students
and faculty to use. Many
faculty members from various departments have also
contributed textbooks,
supplemental reading materials and DVDs.
The
Library is also the recipient
of 25 books from the Center for Distance Learning.
The textbooks delivered by
Beck’s and CDL cover all
disciplines, including Art,
Biology, Business, Computer Information Systems,
English/Speech, Humanities and Social Science.
We received two copies of
each textbook for the current academic year. Reserves are for in-library use
only, but pages may be
copied as needed.
The
collection is housed behind
the Circulation desk and
requires a current HWC ID
card. Students are encouraged to have their syllabi
with them to expedite retrieval. The Library staff
looks forward to serving the
entire college community
with these new acquisitions.
Library Moves to Increase Role
Bolstered by the encouraging assessment data from the Spring 2010 College Success courses, the
library is looking for new ways to be at the center of the academic experience at Harold Washington
College. The library assesses five learning outcomes that are based on its departmental learning objectives. Students are expected to be able to:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Identify key concepts and terms (keywords, synonyms and related terms) that describe the information they seek.
Construct search strategies using appropriate commands, including Boolean operators.
Retrieve information in a variety of formats using various information resources.
Evaluate web sites for authority, credibility and currency.
Recognize the legal and ethical importance of citations and cite information accordingly.
Among the noteworthy results are extraordinary student improvement in the areas of search strategy
construction and recognizing the difference between keyword searching and natural language searching. Other areas show improvement, as well. Direct assessment of student skills indicates strong gains
in SLOs one, four, and five; and lesser gains in SLO three. It should also be noted that, on the whole,
students leave the information literacy sessions much more confident of their abilities.
In light of these accomplishments, the library has put together a wide array of information literacy offerings and is eager, as always, to develop even more educational experiences for our students. Librarians have taught or are currently teaching information literacy to a SENCER class, which combines English, biology, and library coursework; to numerous college success classes, which are meant to help our
new students prepare for the academic rigors that await them; and to scores of individual sessions from
all across the curriculum.
With such heavy demand for the library—indeed, the library classroom is practically booked solid
throughout the months of September and October—one might think that the library would be trying to
put the brakes on their instruction sessions. “Not true,” says librarian John Kieraldo. “We are always
looking to expand our role, and the fact that there is so much demand just reinforces how much we
need to think about new ways to engage with our students.”
The library is considering experimenting with a la carte instruction sessions, where instructors can pick
and choose from a menu of instructional offerings to tailor to their classes’ specific needs. For instance,
in the future, instructors may be able to choose from components such as Library Introduction, Search
Strategies and Databases, Open Internet Searching, Primary and Secondary Sources, Advanced
Searching, and more. Furthermore, the library has begun feeling out the district and the Illinois college
community about the desire for a for-credit information literacy class offering. Exciting things are afoot
in the library classroom!
New Acquisitions
Inside this issue:
Course Reserves Collection
Library Moves to Increase
Role
New Acquisitions
Special Collections
Library Database Profiled &
Remote Access
The HWC Library acquires new
books in all subject areas yearround. Here are some of our
latest acquisitions in the areas of
Latina(o) Studies and in Early
Childhood Education. Suggestions for new acquisitions are
always welcome. Contact us at
[email protected] with your
suggestions.
Hispanic Heritage Month
Just Like Us: The True Story of
Four Mexican Girls Coming of
Age in America by Helen
Thorpe; The Horse in the
Kitchen: Stories of a MexicanAmerican Family by Ralph M.
Flores; Daughters of the Stone:
A Novel by Dahlma LlanosFigueroa; Dominoes and Other
Stories from the Puerto Rican by
Jack Agüeros; Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing
of Race by Arlene Davila; Violence and Activism at the Border : Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez by
Kathleen Staudt.
Early Childhood Education
The Story in the Picture: Inquiry
and Art-making with Young Children by Christine Mulcahey; Play
and Imagination in Children with
Autism by Pamela J. Wolfberg;
Possible Schools: The Reggio
Approach to Urban Education by
Ann Lewin-Benham; The Emotional Development of Young
Children by Marilou Hyson; Un-
derstanding Assessment and
Evaluation in Early Childhood
Education by Dominic F. Gullo;
Educating and Caring for Very
Special collections area
across from the reference
shelves (see side 2)
Young Children by Doris Bergen; Playing to Get Smart by
Elizabeth Jones; Storytime:
Young Children’s Literary
Understanding in the Classroom by Lawrence R. Sipe;
The Light in their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning
Communities by Sonia Nieto;
Little Kids, Big Worries:
Stress-busting Tips for Early
Childhood Classrooms by
Alice Sterling Honig; Addressing Challenging Behaviors in
Early Childhood Settings by
Dawn Denno.
Special Collections at
HWC Library
The HWC Library has a variety of special collections on
display and available for
check-out by students, faculty
and staff. Visit the library soon
and check out some of the
books from the following collections:
I. Assessment Collection –
great for faculty and administrators, this collection contains
a full range of books covering
many subjects relevant to
assessment including assessing student learning; designing
and assessing curricula; memory and academic learning;
American community colleges;
Harold Washington College
Library, Fifth Floor
30 E. Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60601
General phone: 312 553-5760
Reference desk: 312 553-5784
E-mail: [email protected]
Library Chairperson:
Sherry Ledbetter
Office: 501H
Phone: 312 553-5762
Fax: 312 553-5783
E-mail: [email protected]
literacy in America, and much
more.
II. Child Development Association Collection – a collection of
children’s tories and poems
that are ideal for reading to the
very young.
III. College Guides and Scholarships – handbooks, guidebooks and directories that are
chock full of information on
colleges and universities in
America and throughout the
world; financial aid, including
scholarships, grants and fellowships; and information on
studying abroad.
IV. ELL Collection – this collection features paperback
books that are less than 100
pages in length and are specifically written for readers who
are learning English as a second language. Books in this
collection include biographies,
contemporary novels and classic literature and plays, such as
Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
V. Global Initiative Chicago
(GIC) Collection – is a collection of books for students and
faculty covering a wide range
of subjects from environmental
ethics and justice, to capitalism
and other economic issues; to
global food issues; to fossil
fuels, climate change and green
technologies.
VI.
Teaching, Learning and
Technology Collection – another
great collection for faculty and
administrators, this collection
focuses on how media and technologies impact teaching and
learning in higher education institutions. This collection also includes books on college teaching
in general (and is not only focused on media and technology).
Also on display near the special
collections are newly purchased
books, both circulating and reference books, as well as circulating
dictionaries and thesauri. We
look forward to seeing soon at the
library!
a historical dictionary with
meanings, pronunciation, etymologies and usage in literature and periodicals of some
600,000 words, past and present.
Every member of the HWC
community can access the
library’s databases from off
campus. Students have their
logins set up automatically
when they become registered
students. Faculty, staff and
administrators who do not already have a login set up
should e-mail the librarians at
[email protected]
Library Database Profiled — The Oxford English Dictionary
The multivolume Oxford English
Dictionary, available in the reference section of the library, is also
available as a Web-based subscription resource via the library
Web site. The Web version provides ongoing revisions and updates and the Web interface underwent a face lift at the end of
2010. Widely considered the
authority on the English language, the OED provides much
more than merely definitions. It is
Students working together in
an enclosed group study
room behind the main reference desk (there are two such
study rooms in the library)
About the HWC Library: The Harold Washington College Library will provide a
well-organized and easily accessible collection of materials -- print, as well as
non-print and electronic -- primarily to support the college curriculum and services for students at the home campus and for students in our distance learning programs. The Library faculty will be available all hours the Library is open
to offer students instruction and assistance, either individually or in formal
bibliographic instruction sessions.
Librarians:
Sherry Ledbetter <[email protected]>, Chairperson, ext. 5762
Todd Heldt <[email protected]>, ext. 5685
John Kieraldo <[email protected]>, ext. 5761
Celia Perez <[email protected]>, ext. 5635
Don Baird <[email protected]>, ext. 5760
Versie Barnes <[email protected]>, ext. 5760
Michelle Carnes, <[email protected]>, ext. 5760
http://hwclibrary.ccc.edu/